If you have a maple tree and a bucket, you can make maple syrup. Each spring, sugarmakers in every corner of Indiana collect maple sap and boil it down to syrup in the first harvest of the year. Maple Weekend, which celebrates this sweet tradition, took place March...
In spring 2022, the Indiana General Assembly passed Senate Bill 411, creating voluntary commercial solar and wind regulation standards. Indiana communities planning to qualify as a solar or wind energy ready community will need to examine their county ordinances in...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday announced funding for agricultural producers and forest landowners to participate in voluntary conservation programs and adopt climate-smart practices. The Inflation Reduction Act provided an additional $19.5 billion over...
After the recent news of the Chinese balloon that flew over the U.S., there are now heightened concerns about Chinese ownership of American farmland—and whether foreign ownership of farmland is a national security issue. A Chinese food manufacturer recently bought...
The American agricultural sector posted its best export year ever in 2022 with international sales of U.S. farm and food products reaching $196 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Final 2022 trade data released earlier this week by the...
Rob and Karen Dove’s story sounds like a Hallmark Channel movie! The Daviess County farm couple will be celebrating 37 years together—and it all started at their local John Deere dealership! “I was going for parts, and she was working there—and we made a...
In a conversation Friday morning with Hoosier Ag Today, Indiana Farm Bureau director of state government relations Jeff Cummins relayed the latest information on Senate Bill 451 and other bills important to Farm Bureau members. In the interview below, hear Cummins...
Purdue Agronomy Professor Dr. Jianxin Ma has been named the first Indiana Soybean Alliance Endowed Chair in Soybean Improvement. “I'm very excited about this opportunity, and I look forward to identifying the real-world problems that are affecting soybean...
When you think about donations to food banks, you may not think of eggs! That’s why one Indiana-based non-profit organization is stepping up the efforts to get more eggs—and more protein—to those in need. “We talk about, ‘Two eggs in the morning—change a day,...
The National AgrAbility Project, housed at Purdue University’s Breaking New Ground Resource Center, invites farmers, ranchers and agriculture professionals to the 2023 AgrAbility National Training Workshop (NTW) to address issues of disability in agriculture. The...
Representatives Jim Baird of Indiana and Chellie Pingree of Maine, along with Senators John Thune of South Dakota and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, plan to reintroduce legislation to support small meat and poultry processors. The “Strengthening Local Processors Act” will...
